They were just drawing up their chairs, and Russ was wondering how long his grandfather would be gone, when, all at once, a hollow groan sounded through the cabin.
"Umph! Urr-rumph!"
It was a most sorrowful and sad sound and, hearing it, Rose cried:
"Why, there's the ghost again! Oh, it's come from Great Hedge down to this house! There's the ghost!"
Again the hollow groan sounded.
CHAPTER XXIV
CHRISTMAS JOYS
Russ, who was about to take a bite out of a cookie that Mrs. Thompson had given him, stopped with the piece half-way to his mouth. He looked at Rose with wide-open eyes.
The other little Bunkers also looked at their sister, who had left her chair and was standing in the middle of the room.